The last post reviewed the stranglehold of greed that blocks progress to a more patient-centered healthcare system. This article on the failure of the Teledoc/Livongo deal provides evidence that business leaders in medicine often don’t understand the facts, science, and evidence of chronic disease management and quality well enough to construct a program that will improve health and reduce costs. Before you use a disease management program, you should see proof that it achieves those goals. That is part of your fiduciary responsibility as a business leader.
Feb 3, 2023·edited Feb 3, 2023Liked by William H Bestermann Jr MD
I call this "administrative medicine" is another ugly actor in the "Late Stage Sickness Seeking Profiteering" of the American Legacy Kabuki Dance Theater Sponsored by the "Honorable Paymsters" of the American Medical Industrial Complex! It costs us $8 trillion annually. What do we get from the money? We get the third leading cause of deaths of Americans following heart disease and cancer! Had enough yet, people???
Not sure about TV ads but this is a massive deal. "Telehealth giant Teladoc completed its massive $18.5 billion acquisition of Livongo, the company announced Friday."
Good grief. So much swag for something that won’t in the end generate health for patients but will generate more billionaires for sure. Get busy , yacht builders! 🫤🤡🤬
The Flexner Report over a hundred years ago pushed for medical practice based on rigorous science and evidence. That standard is slipping away from us.
This was predictably true, and unsurprisingly shocking!
I call this "administrative medicine" is another ugly actor in the "Late Stage Sickness Seeking Profiteering" of the American Legacy Kabuki Dance Theater Sponsored by the "Honorable Paymsters" of the American Medical Industrial Complex! It costs us $8 trillion annually. What do we get from the money? We get the third leading cause of deaths of Americans following heart disease and cancer! Had enough yet, people???
Is this a rip off being touted on TV ads now? I may have seen something.
Not sure about TV ads but this is a massive deal. "Telehealth giant Teladoc completed its massive $18.5 billion acquisition of Livongo, the company announced Friday."
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/finance/teladoc-finalizes-blockbuster-deal-livongo-less-than-three-months#:~:text=Telehealth%20giant%20Teladoc%20completed%20its,Livongo%2C%20the%20company%20announced%20Friday.
Good grief. So much swag for something that won’t in the end generate health for patients but will generate more billionaires for sure. Get busy , yacht builders! 🫤🤡🤬
The Flexner Report over a hundred years ago pushed for medical practice based on rigorous science and evidence. That standard is slipping away from us.